Huawei is doubling down on its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. On September 29, company founder Ren Zhengfei personally signed off on the appointment of Richard Yu (Yu Chengdong), Executive Director and Chairman of the Consumer Business Group, as the new head of the company’s powerful Investment Review Board (IRB).
On the evening of September 25, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun took the stage for his sixth annual keynote, titled simply: “Change.” But behind the polished presentation was the story of a company that nearly walked away from one of the most defining — and divisive — decisions in its history: whether to build its own smartphone chips, or abandon the dream for good.
Shanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor has scored a breakthrough in China’s healthcare sector. On September 23, the x86 chipmaker announced that over 6,000 of its processor-powered desktops won a major hospital procurement bid, an important step for Chinese x86 CPUs in mission-critical medical deployments.
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